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We study a class of elliptic operators $A$ with unbounded coefficients defined in $ItimesCR^d$ for some unbounded interval $IsubsetCR$. We prove that, for any $sin I$, the Cauchy problem $u(s,cdot)=fin C_b(CR^d)$ for the parabolic equation $D_tu=Au$ admits a unique bounded classical solution $u$. This allows to associate an evolution family ${G(t,s)}$ with $A$, in a natural way. We study the main properties of this evolution family and prove gradient estimates for the function $G(t,s)f$. Under suitable assumptions, we show that there exists an evolution system of measures for ${G(t,s)}$ and we study the first properties of the extension of $G(t,s)$ to the $L^p$-spaces with respect to such measures.
Using time dependent Lyapunov functions, we prove pointwise upper bounds for the heat kernels of some nonautonomous Kolmogorov operators with possibly unbounded drift and diffusion coefficients.
We consider a class of nonautonomous elliptic operators ${mathscr A}$ with unbounded coefficients defined in $[0,T]timesR^N$ and we prove optimal Schauder estimates for the solution to the parabolic Cauchy problem $D_tu={mathscr A}u+f$, $u(0,cdot)=g$.
We consider a class of nonautonomous second order parabolic equations with unbounded coefficients defined in $ItimesR^d$, where $I$ is a right-halfline. We prove logarithmic Sobolev and Poincare inequalities with respect to an associated evolution system of measures ${mu_t: t in I}$, and we deduce hypercontractivity and asymptotic behaviour results for the evolution operator $G(t,s)$.
We study asymptotic behavior in a class of non-autonomous second order parabolic equations with time periodic unbounded coefficients in $mathbb Rtimes mathbb R^d$. Our results generalize and improve asymptotic behavior results for Markov semigroups having an invariant measure. We also study spectral properties of the realization of the parabolic operator $umapsto {cal A}(t) u - u_t$ in suitable $L^p$ spaces.
We prove the $W^{1,2}_{p}$-solvability of second order parabolic equations in nondivergence form in the whole space for $pin (1,infty)$. The leading coefficients are assumed to be measurable in one spatial direction and have vanishing mean oscillation (VMO) in the orthogonal directions and the time variable in each small parabolic cylinder with the direction depending on the cylinder. This extends a recent result by Krylov [17] for elliptic equations and removes the restriction that $p>2$.